10-11-2016, 08:32 AM
(10-11-2016, 02:57 AM)-JKP- wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I sometimes get smacked when I suggest that much of it may be original rather than copied from older sources
The hypothesis that some, or indeed all of the content is original has been the dominant view ever since Voynich, and still is... Invention is cited more often as an explanation than tradition. In fact , I believe many people still have problems letting go of the idea of an auteur even as a thought experiment. Of course I'm not talking about you, I know you always consider various angles. But "original content" is far from the minority view and is indeed the first impression many newcomers get.
It's a normal question to ask when you first see this work: who invented this weird thing and why?
Charles - like JKP and Sam say, this is one of the ideas newcomers regularly get. As a first impression of the manuscript, it is as good as any, but it will remain a general impression until it can actually explain those things which have remained unexplained after a century of scrutiny...